Product Details

• Actors: Robert Beltran, Annette Charles, Américo González, Michael Goodwin, Ricardo López
• Directors: Haskell Wexler
• Writers: Haskell Wexler
• Producers: George Lucas, Benjamin Berg
• Format: NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Fox Home Entertainme
• VHS Release Date: October 2, 1986
• Run Time: 105 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6300248259
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #284,150 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great piece of history wrapped around a story, January 19, 2008

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Ann L. Hamil (Redding, Ca. USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Latino [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Make no mistake this is a film that involves a political war and a small piece of history that most of us won't be aware of but while the story itself is made up the facts of what occurred is real.
Robert Beltran gives a great performance of a Latino green beret who comes to question his assignment and ultimately wakes up the viewer to ask themselves if what the government is doing at any given time the right thing. After all we are only told bits and pieces of these things and films such as this one help to clarify. To bad it's only available on vhs.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Lost Latinos, May 29, 2002

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"friendly3220" (Whitehall, PA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Latino [VHS] (VHS Tape)

A film passed over. Theme of the movie shows U.S. as the bad boy
on the block. That is why it got very little notice, hardly
available and who would care, except left wing radicals who
care about social injustice perpetrated by the Empire against
the people shown clearly in the film. I wondered how the movie
got made in the first place given the anti-US slant. The scenes
were enlightening and the somewhat filmy/grainy visual effect
added to the surreal quality. Very scarry. Characters were a
back drop to the theme. I was afraid of the CIA barging into my
home to confiscate the video and taking me in for questioning
as to why I was watching this film as they pulled my finger nails
out and my arms out of their sockets. Few have knowledge of this
movie and the U.S. government is happy to keep it that way.

5.0 out of 5 stars nice movie, January 15, 2012

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Jonathan Mena (SJ Costa Rica) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Latino: America's Secret War in Nicaragua (DVD)

it's a good movie, it really describes the other side of the story, the soldier side, this chicanos US soldiers sent to nicaragua to train the contras and forced to fight without their dog tags cause US didnt want dead american soldiers in a nicaraguan civil war, that made them feel like they were not doing the right thing and they shouldn't even be there, it was a real story, i'm Costa Rican and i know some central-american history, i remember about this nicaraguan civil war, but i didnt know USA was financing the contras, interesting story, it would be better to read about the contra and sandinistas history before watching this movie, cause it'll help you understand it better, cause i think that in the movie is not very clear which side of that civil war was the right side. i liked it.